to wonder if anyone in real life actually talks like this?

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I am having a lazy t'internet morning! When browsing various forums (fora sounds a bit daft to me even if it is 'correct') it has occured to me that people seem to type things that I have never heard anyone say.

I have never heard a real person say 'one' when chatting. As in 'what does one do in these situations?' or 'one wonders if it is necessary' etc etc.

or gosh, gracious (as an exclamation), fora etc. lots of things really.

Is this because people use words or terms online that they don't in real life or is it because I and all my friends are terribly common?

my mum says 'one' and I was once teased for saying something was 'beastly'

yeah, and what of it?

i also say 'fucking crikey' 'fucksticks' and 'blasted cunt'

one finds immense satisfaction in mixing ones cursive language betwixt the vernacular and reactive

plural of forum if you want to sound like a twat.

get away is it I would have just said forums "fora"

I say crikey a lot in RL

It's very retro

I thought anyone could say one but only the Queen could say we?

I got cross with a children's puzzles last week, because it has a piece with "octopi" on it.

"One simply does not say "octopi". One says octopuses, or octopodes", said I to the family at large.

Actually, I didn't say it like that. I think I said, "be normal or be actually technically correct", but the first version is grander.

I say gosh. Mostly because I was about to say fuck and a child walks into earshot. I would put people who say fora on a par with people who say panino or datum - what a bunch of goshers!

'crikey' is such an undervalued word

but you have to say in manner of Paul Hogan

I say gosh, usually at work when I can't swear

I dislike 'one'.

What is fora?

I have never referred to myself as one, nor have I ever used the word fora (I actually had no idea there was such a word).

I do say gosh, goodness and gracious though

Whilst wrestling a croc?

oh Lordy- crikey is a vital part of my vocabulary !

I quite like a bit of 1930's schoolgirl slang.

"because I and all my friends are terribly common? "

There you are then! There's your answer

All my friends and family say 'Gracious' and 'Crikey'. All the time. Honest.

I do like to shoehorn the word 'lashings' into any conversation I can. We had lashings of gravy on our dinner last night.

plural of forum if you want to sound like a twat.

body this is what fora means

I say 'gosh', and 'one' as in 'I'm not sure what one does in that situation', or to differentiate it from 'you' and make clear that I'm talking about people in general rather than one person. Also 'cripes', 'Good lord', 'darn' and no doubt loads of others.

yes Pascha - with a knife in your teefs

I have been known to say 'flipping heck'

Flipping Crikey

"One" does sound pretentious, but on some forums, there's always someone ready to feel insulted if anyone uses a universal you in a post. I remember getting into the habit of reading through my post, and substituting "one" for "you".

I say 'gosh' and 'crikey' a lt A lady I knew would often use 'presently', if I used it I would sound like a twat but it suited her.

OK I sometimes say "one"
But not talking about myself in the third person. Rather kind of a wondering about "any singular person" - not necessarily me. I can't think of an example now but I've done it once or twice. With purpose though.

I only say "gosh" if I am speaking to someone's granny.

Blimey I actually do use because it sounds cool.

What I don't get it people who say:

"I will source it for you" when what they ACTUALLY mean is "Yeh I will get it"
Or "Get it to you soonest" - REALLY? WHY?!

TheBigJessie - That's actually how I do it. When trying to get examples across to people without saying "you"

If one is discussing multiple Roman outdoor meeting places -then surely one would be correct in using Fora?

But that doesn´t mean that the plural of all uses of Forum is Fora, does it?

The word that annoys me most in the world is "fetii". It is an example of someone being pretentious and wrong. If you want to pluralise the word fetus in the Latin way, it's fetus. Because fetus is a fourth declension noun. So just type "fetuses" like everybody else.